NEWSLETTER

of the

American Scientific Affiliation & Canadian Scientific Christian Affiliation

VOLUME 31 NUMBER 3                                                                                   JUNE/JULY 1989

NEWSLETTER of the ASA/CSCA is published bi-monthly for its membership by the American Scientific Affiliation, 55 Market St., Ipswich,
MA 01938. Tel. 508-356-5656. Information for the Newsletter may be sent to the Editor: Dr. Walter R. Hearn, 762 Arlington Ave.,
Berkeley, CA 94707. American Scientific Affiliation (except previously published material). All Rights Reserved.
[Editor: Dr. Walter R. Hearn / Production: Nancy C. Hanger]

COMING SOON (IN JUNE?)

The "Third Printing, Revised" of Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy will be off the press in June, the Lord willing. Why did it take so long to get it out after the second printing ran out? "We wanted to get it right," say members of ASA's Committee for Integrity in Science Teaching.

Committee members Dave Price, John Wiester, and Waft Hearn have worked on the revisions for over a year, aided by at least a dozen reviewers. Will the changes they've made finally satisfy either the militant attackers or defenders of evolution? Probably not, the authors admit, at least among those who turn "creation" and "evolution" into polar opposites, denying that a broad middle ground exists.

Yet 80% of the biology teachers in public schools probably fit into that middle category. One could draw that conclusion from a recent study of 62 Wisconsin schools: "Evolution, Creation, and Wisconsin Biology Teachers" by Thomas E. Van Koevering and Richard B. Stiehl (The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 51, p. 200, April 1989). No wonder so many teachers have given an A or A+ to Teaching Science.

The ASA booklet shows science teachers how to deal sympathetically with students' religious questions that go beyond science. It also cautions them not to claim too much where scientific issues are still not settled. For the Third Printing, the authors tried to clarify open questions about the origins of the invertebrates and of human beings. (Another change is the price, now up to $6 for a single copy, $4 each for ten or more.)

UNDERWAY (SINCE MAY)

By the end of May you should have received two important mail ings from the ASA national office. One contains a ballot on new wording proposed for ASA's Statement of Faith, with an urgent request for the thoughtful vote of every Member and Fellow. Since this ballot is
for an amendment to the Affiliation's Constitution, at least one third of ASA's voting membership must vote to constitute a quorum. Once we have a quorum, a majority of the ballots cast will decide the issue.

Deliberations over how to retain ASA's strong evangelical position, yet make its meaning clearer to outsiders and potential new members, have gone on over a two-year period. At last summer's Executive Council meeting, the Newsletter editor heard committee chair Charles Hummel (then also ASA president) discuss those deliberations in detail. Several decades ago, the original lengthy Statement of Faith of 1942 was shortened to the present three-pointerby vote of the membership. Although the present statement has served us well, the Council has frequently felt a need to clarify the meaning of some of its language. At its fall 1988 meeting, the Council accepted the committee's recommendation to put a new version before the membership.

At press time we've seen the final draft of the Council's proposal, a four-pointer. Point I says "We accept the divine inspiration, trustworthiness and authority of the Bible in matters of faith and conduct." Some have felt a lack of any reference to the Holy Spirit in the present version, so Point 2 broadens our present statement about Jesus Christ to a confession of "the Tritme God affirmed in the Nicene and Apostles' Creeds." Then (no doubt for Baptists and others in non-creedal denominations) it defines those two most universal historic confessions "as brief, faithful statements of Christian doctrine based on Scripture." Point 3 clarifies the third point of our present statement of belief in God's creation and preservation of the universe, affirming that God has endowed it "with contingent order and intelligibility, the basis of scientific investigation."

Point 4 of the new proposal adds a dimension many have missed in our present statement, a Christian commitment of our scientific work: "We recognize our responsibility, as stewards of God's creation, to use science and technology for the good of humanity and the whole world."

The committee has done its work humbly and carefully, recognizing that any statement of Christian faith is a human document that may have flaws. They considered not only the variety of Christian traditions represented in ASA but also the historic relationship of evangelical para-church organizations like ASA to the worldwide Body of Christ. Charlie Hummel (who has long served on the staff of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and is now its Faculty Representative) says the committee tried to clear away any "underbrush" that might obscure a clear view of ASA's profound allegiance to the Bible, to Jesus Christ, and to science as one way of understanding God's creation.

To assure a quorum, the Executive Council requests that all ballots be returned by 30 June 1989.

LOTS MORE (AUGUST 4)

The other mailing from Ipswich to greet you in May or June is the tentative program and registration material for the 1989 ASA ANNUAL MEETING, to be held AUGUST 4-7 at INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY in MARION, INDIANA. Mark your calendar and send in your registration as soon as possible. That's another way of "voting" for ASA.

Expert presentations and open discussions on the theme of "Biomedical Ethics" will make this Annual Meeting exciting enough, but there are always thought-provoking contributed papers on other topics as well. Besides, you can interact with ASA president Stan Lindquist, the rest of the Council, and executive director Bob Herrmann; check out the third printing of Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy; hear a review of progress on the ASA television series; talk to people about their favorite ASA project, or yours; exchange ideas on scientific or theological issues; or simply "worship with the saints." Why not give yourself and your family four days of spirited, spiritual fellowship with other Christians in science? An Annual Meeting is almost guaranteed to intensify your commitment to serve Christ more joyfully and responsibly.

"Just as there are many parts of our bodies, so it is with Christ's body. We are all parts of it, and it takes every one of us to make it complete, for we each have differcrit work to do. So we belong to each other, and each needs all the others" (Romans 12:4-5, TLB).

Besides recharging your spiritual and intellectual batteries in a few days of "retreat" from routine problems, an ASA Annual Meeting is a lot of fun. As somebody famous once said, if we don't hang out together, we may all get separate hang-ups.

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH

0fficial theme of the 1989 ASA ANNUAL MEETING is "The Science, Technology, and Ethics of Human Intervention." The keynote speaker, on "Assisted Reproduction: Factors Influencing a Clinician's Ethical Decision," will be Dr. Howard Jones of Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, who founded the first in-vitro fertilization clinic in the U.S. Also featured will be a major plenary session on "Human Engineering."

Dr. Jones's participation was enlisted by his long-time research colleague, R. James Swanson of the Biological Sciences Dept of Old Dominion University in Norfolk. Jim Swanson chairs ASA's Commission on Biomedical Ethics, responsible for planning this year's Annual Meeting.

For years now, each Annual Meeting has been planned by an ASA Commission studying some issue of public concern, an issue in which science and religious faith intersect. To participate in an ASA Meeting gives one greater insight to follow those issues as they continue to develop.

PRIYATNAYA NOBOCT

The editor's Russian isn't so good, but we intended that head line to mean "WELCOME NEWS." The news that's so welcome is that glasnost has reached the American Scientific Affiliation. We now have our first ASA member residing in
the Soviet Union!

Viktor Trostnikov is a 60-yearold physicist who lives in Moscow with his wife Galena. Victor is a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, has a Ph.D. from Moscow University, and has written ten textbooks. He is also interested in mathematics, philosophy, and scientific apologetics. Peter Dyneka, Jr., director of Slavic Gospel Association of Wheaton, Illinois, has visited Victor in Moscow and says that he is able to receive ASA's Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith and finds it very helpful.

Evidently Victor first learned about ASA from a teacher at the Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York. The monastery runs a school and publishes several periodicals, including Orthodox Russia (in Russian) and Orthodox Life (in both English and Russian).

To the Trostnikovs we say (with the apostle Paul), "Blagodat Gospoda Iiusa Krista c vami."

DWIGHT LECTURE, 1989

John Y. May of Pittsburgh is the academic coordinator of the Dwight Lecture on Christian Thought presented annually on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. This year's lecture was given on March 29 by U. of Minnesota geneticist and former ASA president V. Elving Anderson. In his public lecture on "Science, the Bible, and an Open Mind," Elving stressed the importance of both objectivity and commitment at all stages of scientific investigation-and in the life of faith as well. At a joint meeting of Penn InterVarsity, Christian Medical Dental Society, and Nurses Christian Fellowship, Elving also spoke on genetic engineering and Christian values.

The 1989 lecture was the eighth in the series begun in 1982 with a lecture by Harvard astronomer and science historian Owen Gingerich. Owen has continued to give an updated version of that lecture, "Let There Be Light: Modem Cosmogony and Biblical Creation," before many audiences, including most ASA local sections. According to John May, two other ASA members besides Gingerich and Anderson have been Dwight lecturers: legal scholar John W. Montgomery (1985) and Harvard psychiatry professor Armand M. Nicholi (1986).

The Dwight Lecture is named in honor of Timothy Dwight, Christian scholar and president of Yale University from 1795 to 1817.

HAROLD NEBELSICK

James Neidhardt has informed us of the death of Harold P. Nebelsick, professor of doctrinal theology at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI) at Princeton. Jim, a physicist, had spent part of a recent sabbatical studying theology with Prof Nebelsick and felt very close to him. Jim regarded him as one of the few major American theologians with an interest in dialogue with natural scientists.  Although - Nebelsick had not joined ASA, he was "a firm and good friend of ASA and very supportive of our work." He died on Easter Sunday, 26 March 1989.

With theologian and ASA member Thomas Torrance of Edinburgh, Nebelsick organized a 1988 series of CTI-sponsored consultations between scientists and theologians, in Oxford, Heidelberg, Burlingame (CA), and Princeton. Several key ASA thinkers participated in the two U.S. consultations. Nebelsick put much of his own thinking into his 1981 Theology and Science in Mutual Modification, Vol. 2 in an important series on "Theology and Scientific Culture." In 1985 he published Circles of God: Theology and Science from the Greeks to Copernicus, and had a third book, The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Science, in process at the time of his death.

In his years of study and interaction with distinguished scholars, Harold Nebelsick maintained a ministry that was, according to Tom Torrance, "biblically based and evangelically directed." Ordained in the Presbyterian Church USA in 1953, he and his wife Melissa (who survives him) went to Germany in 1956 to serve East German refugees. After pastoring in West Germany and one year back in the U.S., he taught dogmatics at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut, Lebanon (1963-68). He joined the Louisville faculty in 1968. With his profound sense of the sovereign majesty of the living God and the presence of the risen Lord, says Torrance, it was fitting that he passed into the Lord's presence at Easter.

It was evidently Harold Nebelsick whose research on the influence of modem physics on theology supported the nomination of German physicist Carl F. von Weizsdcker for the 1989 Templeton Prize (shared with the Very Rev. Lord Macleod). For ASA member John Templeton, founder of that esteemed prize for innovation in religion, Nebelsick had been compiling a Who's Who in the Theology of Science.

BULLETIN BOARD

- ASA's Committee for Integrity in Science Education expects to have an exhibit booth at the Fifth Christian Congress for Excellence in Public Education, to be held at the Inn at the Park Hotel in Anaheim, California, June 28-July 1. The Congress, devoted to "revitalizing America's public schools, both academically and spiritually," coincides with the 20th National Convention of Christian Educators Association International (CEAI) but has many organizational sponsors other than CEAL including Campus Crusade for Christ, the Christian College Coalition, and the Christian Legal Society. ASA members in attendance or in the area are invited to drop in at the booth and help spread the word about Teaching Science in a Climte of Controversy.

- The C. S. Lewis Fellowship is collecting a research file of testimonies of former agnostics and atheists who have become Christians, for a continuing study of effective evangelism. The Fellowship is related to the Center for University Ministries of Trinity College in Florida. Contact Thomas E. Woodward, Director, C. S. Lewis Fellowship, P.O. Box 9000, Holiday, FL 34690-9000.

- Oskar Gruenwald requests papers for Vol. 2 of his Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies by 1 July 1989. Subjects: The second Reformation;
Freedom, religion, and politics. For information, write JIS Editor, 2828 Third St., Suite 11, Santa Monica, CA 90405. Vol. I is promised for fall 1989. Oskar's Fall/Winter 1988-89 Newsletter (of the International Christian Studies Association) reported a disappointingly low attendance at the 1988 ICSA Congress in England but an interesting program. (Even more interesting to this Newsletter editor was Oskar's detailed report of the three keynote addresses at the 1988 ASA Annual Meeting.-Ed.)

- The 21 April 1989 issue of Christianity Today had a review of Science Held Hostage (by Calvin College profs Howard Van Till, Davis Young, and Clarence Menninga). Science writer Bill Durbin not only wrote a good review but managed to mention that the authors are members of the American Scientific Affiliation.

- Charles E. Hummel has also done ASA a favor (see above) in a new 32-page pocket-size pamphlet in IVP's Viewpoint series. In Creation or Evolution: Resolving the Crucial Issues ($1.95), Charlie not only recommends Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy as "a sound approach," but even managed to get ASA's address into a footnote. Charlie's pamphlet takes its own very sound approach (as in his 1986 IVP book The Galileo Connection), so we can almost forgive the combative-sounding fitle (chosen by the publisher). In his campus travels as IVCF Faculty Representative, Charlie finds "continuing interest, but also widespread misunderstanding" of both science and Scripture. Like his recent public lectures at Occidental, Stanford, and U. of the Pacific, Charlie's new pamphlet helps Christian students gain a better understanding of Genesis and helps seeking non-Christians "get past roadblocks to confidence in the Bible, which presents God's love and mcrcy in Jesus Christ."

- Gower Publishing Company (Old Post Road, Brookfield, VT 05036) has been named North American distributor for Scottish Academic Press publications, including the series called Theology & Science at the Frontiers of Knowledge. Ten titles comprise that series to date, including four appearing in 1988: Victor Fiddes, Science and the Gospel; Carver T. Yu, Being and Relation; John Puddefoot, Logic and Affirmation; and W. P. Carvin, Creation and Scientific Explanation. Other Gower titles of interest include Stanley L. Jaki, Science and Creation (1987), T.F. Torrance, Reality & Scientific Theology (1985), and lain Paul, Knowledge of God: Calvin, Einstein, & Polanyi (1988).

- Christians in Science (CIS) is the new name for what used to be called the Research Scientists , Christian Fellowship, the U.K. organization with which ASA held a joint meeting in Oxford in 1985. ASA member Oliver R. Barclay serves as publications secretary. The CIS address is 8a Southland Road, Leicester LE2 3RJ, England.

WHEREVER GOD WANTS US: 7.

Scientists are good at breaking large problems down into smaller ones and tackling them one step at a time. That kind of training gives all ASA/CSCA members something important to contribute to the church's efforts to serve the world in Christ's name. Thinking strategically about how to take the gospel across cultural barriers needn't minimize the Holy Spirit's role in drawing people into God's family. But it does help us figure out how to plug into that enterprise.

We mentioned last time that energy-researcher Ken Touryan is cochairing the Tentmaker Task Force for Lausanne, a follow-up of the 1974 Lausanne Congress for World Evangelization (LCWE), to be held 11-20 July 1989 in Manila. Another long-time ASA member playing a major role in that worldwide gathering is Edward R. Dayton, director of Missions Advanced Research and Communication (MARC) of World Vision International. Ed is program director for the whole Congress, with MARC providing some major logistic support. Ed serves on the International. Executive Committee of LCWE (USA address: 2531 Nina St., Pasadena, CA 91107.)

Incidentally, a new "short-term missions handbook" from MARC has sold tens of thousands of copies since its publication last year. The 148-page magazine-size paperback is called Stepping Out: A Guide to Short-Term Missions ($4.00 plus s/h cost, from MARC Publications, 919 West Huntington Drive, Monrovia, CA 91016. CA residents add 6.5% sales tax). MARC is devoted to putting modem technology to work at the task of worldwide evangelization. A free subscription to the MARC Newsletter is available on request' With the monthly Newsletter comes a MARC Booklist, listing many mission-oriented publications. Ed Dayton is author or co-author of over a dozen books and pamphlets on the latest list.

In January, Ed Dayton participated in a Global Consultation on World Evangelization (GCOWE) not directly related to LCWE but serving as a kind of "warm-up" for the coming Congress in Manila. That Consultation, held in Singapore, brought some 300 mission executives from 60 countries together to discuss avenues of cooperation for evangelizing the world in this century. Some Latin American participants were dubious about Roman Catholics being invited to present their plans for world evangelization along with the others, but their anxiety was relieved by the "humble and gracious spirit" of the Catholic representatives. Many GCOWE participants saw first-hand the fruit of a renewal movement growing within Catholicism, with an emphasis on "a personal commitment to Jesus Christ and a deeper understanding of the scriptural mandate to evangelize the world."

Many new working relationships were formed at the Singapore Consultation, which focused primarily on "frontier" missionary activity. To keep the spirit of the consultation going, an ad hoc group has established an AD 2000 Global Service Office (P.O. Box 129, Rockville, VA 23146). The momentum is expected to carry over to the much larger Lausanne II Congress in July, which may draw as many as 4,000 delegates dedicated to fulfilling the Great Commission, plus perhaps 1,000 more observers.

A more modest sign of increasing collaboration to "get the job done" is a Conference for Christian International Students to be held August 19-25 at IVCF's Cedar Campus in Cedarville, Michigan. Cosponsors with Inter-Varsity include the Navigators, Campus Crusade for Christ, and International Students (formerly ISI). The purpose is to help international students who are Christians reintegrate into their own cultures after their schooling in North America and find their own roles in the church's worldwide mission. Registration deadline is July 31. One way ASA/CSCA members or local sections can have "a piece of the action" is to encourage Christian international students of their acquaintance to go; another is to provide aid in the form of scholarships and transportation. For further information, contact Ned Hale, International Student Ministries, IVCF, P.O. Box 7895, Madison, WI 5370-77895.

Evangelizing the world sounds like an overwhelming task, but so was the development of modern science. Any alert Christian can have an effective "ministry to the world" without even leaving home. The IVCF International Dept has a number of helpful publications ranging from a quarterly Newsletter to a 30-page "International Student Ministries Guide" compiled by Fred Bailey to books such as David Bryant's In the Gap: What It Means to be a World Christian and Lawson Lau's The World at Your Doorstep: A Handbook for International Student Ministry.

Of the approximately 400,000 foreign students on American campuses, only about 15% ever experience any meaningful contact with Christians before returning to their home countries. Most of those 400,000 are studying science and technology.

How about doing a little strategic thinking?

THE EDITOR'S LAST WORDS: 3

Anyone who takes seriously both the scientific idea of evolution and the biblical doctrine of creation knows what it is to be "caught in a crossfire." Operating in the middle of any conflict develops one's capacity to see strengths and weaknesses on both sides. That knack is seldom appreciated by those who deal in only two basic categories. friends of the truth (as they see it), and enemies. Never mind, said Jesus, in effect, as he encouraged "those who strive for peace" to hold out for the Whole Truth

On these pages the editor stepped unintentionally into an ongoing crossfire between supporters and opponents of the National Rifle Association (NRA). To stress the importance of last year's Annual Meeting on intenational arms control, he mentioned how hard it is to reach agreement on street-level "arms control" within the U.S. (Aug/Sep 1988, p. 2). He didn't get it quite right, according to Jim Patrick (Oct/Nov 1988, p. 5). Never mind, said Tim Wallace, you got the gist of it (Dec 88/Jan 89, p. 3). Whoa, says a recent volley from Alan Van Antwerp of Big Rapids, Michigan: Tim's statement about the NRA's position was incorrect.

What's embarrassing is that it was the Weary Old Editor (WOE is me-Ed.) who put those words in Tim's mouth. Any slander of the NRA by misstating its position on (semi? fully?) automatic weapons was our fault, not Tim's. We apologize to all injured (wounded?) parties. We're glad none has shown a quirk for irk.

Since the last time we stuck our nose out of the trenches, however, a guy with a whatchacallit shot up an elementary school playground in Stockton, California. We're not sure whether it was a semi- or fully automatic whatchacallit, but sales of whatchacallems immediately jumped (up to something like 100 per week in our county). Evidently the buyers anticipated that the state legislature might ban whatchacallems.

Indeed, a lot of California citizens have since been pushing their legislators for and against laws to regulate the sale, possession, or use of (military? assault?) whatchacallems. In those deliberations, (alleged) spokespersons for NRA have not been silent-but we're not about to risk telling you what they (reportedly) said.

We'll also stay out of the argument over whether the kids on that playground were killed by a dangerous whatchacallit or by a dangerous guy who owned a sporting whatchacallit. We'd stay out of all arguments if we could. Somehow, though, arguments just spring up around editors.- Maybe there's some basic conflict between writer's and editors. It's so easy to get things wrong.

We even heard of a writer who submitted an article on the good taste of fresh milk and became furious at an (alleged) editor who condensed it.

LOCAL SECTIONS

METROPOLITAN NEW YORK

The spring meeting took place on April 8 at Northeastern Bible College in Essex Falls, New Jersey, with William W. Paul as featured speaker. Professor Paul, a long-time ASA member, chairs the Dept of Philosophy & Religion at Central College in Pella, Iowa, but this year has been a visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary, working on a Christian perspective on environmental issues. Appropriately, his topic was "Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology."

For an after-dinner panel on "Ethics and Theology," Bill Paul was joined by Gordon Olson and Fred Clark of the Northeastern faculty and biologist Stanley Rice of the King's College.

Local section members are marking their calendars for the fall 1989 meeting scheduled for October 7. The special guest speaker will be the distinguished theologian Thomas F. Torrance of Edinburgh, author of numerous books relating science and theology and recipient of the 1978 Templeton Prize.

INDIANA-OHIO

We're not sure whether ASAers at Case Western Reserve were functioning as part of the Indiana-Ohio local section when they cosponsored a University Christian Forum public lecture on March 31, but the address on "Cocaine Addiction: A Symptom of the Modem Spiritual Crisis," by Dr. David Allen was evidently a big success. Allen, consultant psychiatrist at the Princess Margaret Hospital in the Bahamas, is a world-renowned expert on the diagnosis and treatment of cocaine abusers. He spoke of the intensely rapid addictive power of crack cocaine and the near impossibility of gaining freedom from that addiction without repeated inpatient and out-patient therapy, together with sustained support from family members, the community, and one's faith in God.

According to Case psychiatry professor Craig Stockmeier, videotapes of the lecture are available for $20 from Prof Tom Hoshiko, 2651 Ashurst Road, University Heights, OH 44118. Checks should be made out to the American Scientific Affiliation.

NORTH CENTRAL

The section met on March 10 at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, with dinner together in the cafeteria followed by a talk by Prof Gary Deason of the Depts of History and Religion at St. Olaf College. The topic was "Protestant Biblical Interpretation and the Reception of Scientific Ideas in the 17th Century." Deason has a Ph.D. in history of science and theology from Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary. He taught at Vanderbilt before joining the St. Olaf faculty.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY

Another "family potluck" was held on May 6 at Irvington Presbyterian Church in Fremont. The program featured Patrick Hunt, chair of humanities at Simpson College in San Francisco. Hunt, a Ph.D. candidate in archaeology at the U. of London, spoke on "Adam in Eden or Other Traditions of Human Origins." Pat is an archaeologist with field experience in stone technology. He has recovered and studied artifacts from Etruscan, Roman, and Aegean sites in the Old World and Inca and Maya sites in the New World. He has delved into the remains of various peoples and civilizations around the world that seem to have little connection to biblical accounts. "How helpful are the biblical accounts of human origins in the light of recent scientific controversies? Is Adam in the Garden of Eden a direct antecedent of Indo-European traditions of human origins?"

Section chair John Wood is working on plans for a get-together with Owen Gingerich when Owen comes to speak at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, June 22-25 on the U.C. Berkeley campus. A notice will be mailed to Local Section members when arrangements are firmed up, probably for an informal breakfast meeting in Berkeley on Saturday, June 24.

PERSONALS

Gary Allen of the Christian Mission for the United Nations Community in New York reports a number of spiritual gains among U.N. delegates and staff, and one earthly loss. In October 1988, Sir Edgerton Richardson, Jamaica's former Ambassador to the U.N., died and was given a State funeral. Richardson had been on the board of advisors to the Mission and had taught the Delegates' Bible Study on many occasions. "He made his Lord his utmost priority," Gary says, "and we will certainly miss his participation with us." Gary is a neurophysiologist. In a new brochure he lists several ways for volunteers to live out the gospel at the U.N. (Address: Christian Ministry for the U.N. Community, P.O. Box 202, White Plains, NY 10603.)

John R. Armstrong of Calgary, Alberta, is a geologist now in his third year of unemployment due to economic stagnation in the oil business. He keeps so busy writing and speaking, though, that he probably wonders how he ever found time

to work for a salary. John's reviews and communications have begun to appear in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, among other places. As an Episcopal deacon, he's had many opportunities to preach as well as to speak on "The Evolution of Creationism." In the Apr/May issue (p. 4), we mentioned his paper on that topic in Earth Sciences History; for an offprint, send a self-addressed 9x12 envelope stamped with adequate Canadian postage (760 for Canada, 980 for the U.S., or the equivalent in loose U.S. stamps he can use on his own SASEs to the U.S.) to John at BI, 4515 Varsity Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3A OZ8. (Under the circumstances, sending a check made out for a bit extra might be a nice thing to do.Ed.)

J. Philip Bays is an organic chemistry professor at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. We haven't heard from Phil in a long time but we spotted his name in "Postscripts" in the 28 Nov 1988 issue of Chemical & Engineering News. Commenting on use of the passive voice in lab notebooks (" The sample was titrated" vs. "I titrated the sample"), Phil recalled a student whose style was to use the active voice but omit the subject: "Dropped sample. Started over."

Jon Buell directs the Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FIE) in Richardson, Texas, which promotes "freedom of choice for students in matters of philosophy, values, and conscience through the production of textbooks and other curriculum, and through teacher training." Jon sent a copy of a major "op ed" piece of his from the Dallas Morning News (10 March 1989), headlined "Broaden Science Curriculum." In this year's standoff over evolution at the Texas Board of Education corral, Jon wasn't just shooting from the hip. Many educated Americans, he claimed, suspect that indoctrination gets mixed up with instruction in the teaching of evolution. Jon cited Michael Denton and Charles Thaxton (FTE's curriculum director) as scientists skeptical of evolutionary claims.

-Rodger K. Bufford is professor and chair of clinical psychology at Western Conservative Baptist Seminary in Portland, Oregon. His recent book, Counseling and the Demonic (Word), "addresses the relationship between denornic influence and mental disorders, the problem of assessment, and practical interventions." It also discusses the effects of spiritual warfare in normal human experience. For the past several years Rodger has been investigating spiritiual well-being in collaboration with Craig Ellison and Ray Paloutzian. He can supply materials for the Spiritual WellBeing Scale and a bibliography to interested parties. Address: Westem Seminary, 5511 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, OR 97215.

Norman L. Geister is dean of the Liberty Center for Research & Scholarship, a Christian "think tank" at Liberty University. In an earlier issue we mentioned that Norm's Quest Ministries would move with him from Dallas. New address: Quest Ministries, P.O. Box 4648, Lynchburg, VA 24502.

Curtis C. Goodson now lives in Austin, Texas, where he has retired after serving 33 years as a Presbyterian missionary in Brazil.

Ruth Herr lives with husband Dave and their two young sons in Price, Utah, where Dave pastors the Price Assembly of God Church. Sometimes feeling like missionaries on foreign soil in that Mormon territory, they ask for our prayers that they will represent Christ there faithfully. Ruth was able to attend the 1987 Annual Meeting in Colorado Springs. She was ASA's managing editor before Ann Woodworth, then Nancy Hanger took over.

Jenny Holmes has a B.S. in geology and is working toward an M.T.S. at Wesley Tbeological Seminary in Washington, D.C., with a focus on Christian environmental ethics. When we heard from her, she was also coordinating a series of lectures on a Christian response to the greenhouse effect.

George Jennings of Le Mars, Iowa, has become chair of the Publications Committee of the Association of Evangelical Professors of Missions (AEPM). What that means first of all is that he now edits AEPM's Occasional Bulletin, a newsletter to be published three or four times a year. The first issue appeared in February. AEPM, which formerly met every three years, is now planning to meet annually. Because of George's anthropological interest in world-class cities in the Muslim world, he has been invited to participate in the International Congress on World Evangelization (Lausanne II) in the Philippines in July.

Charles Bruce Koons has retired from Exxon Production Research in Houston, Texas, after almost 31 years with the company. He has a Ph.D. in chemistry and plans to consult in the fields of environmental chemistry and petroleum geochemistry.

Stuart McHugh is employed in the Mechanics & Materials Engineering Dept of Lockheed's Palo Alto Research Laboratories in California, working on various projects for NASA. A "geophysicist in aerospace," Stuart has studied fractures in polymers, stresses in rocket nozzles, and lately the thermornechanical behavior of inclusions in metals. He has an M.S. in materials science, another M.S. and Ph.D. in geophysics, all from Stanford. Before moving to Lockheed, he worked at the U.S. Geological Survey and SRI International in the Bay area. Stu describes himself as an "evangelical Catholic/Protestant." Since 1971 he has attended Menlo Park Presbyterian Church and taught adult education classes there. Lately he has been teaching such classes at First United Methodist in Palo Alto, drawing on his Catholic background to enrich his presentation of early church history and Reformation history. He is now teaching a course on "Culture and Christianity." He finds time to get together with a friend to read the New Testament in Koind Greek.

Joseph Miller is a grad student in ecology at Penn State, interested in landscape ecology, island biogeography, and biodiversity. He is working on scales of disturbance in deciduous-forest and wetland-ripan*an (freshwater) ecosystems. An alumnus of Messiah College, Joe would appreciate hearing from others with similar interests. (Address: 318 S. Atherton, State College, PA 16801.)

Allan M. Nishimura, chemistry professor at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, has been awarded one of 37 Summer Research Fellowship Supplements for Faculty from the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society. Allan will study optically detected magnetic resonance of adsorbed molecules on thin metal films in ultrahigh vacuum.

Kenneth V. Olson of Greeley, Colorado, heads ASA's Commission on Science Education. Hc is one of about 40 emeritus members of the National Association for Research 'in Science Teaching (NARST), founded in 1928 to promote research *in science education at all levels. In April Ken, active in his church, participated in a convocation in St. Louis called to found a group called "Presbyterians for Renewal" within the Presbyterian Church (USA).

Joseph W. Palen is a principal staff consultant with HTRI (Heat Transfer Resarch, Inc.) at their research facilities in Alhambra, California. In an earlier issue we mentioned his plans to spend two years at the U.S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena preparing for "tentmaking" missionary work in Indonesia (his wife is a native of Java). We spotted a good letter from Joe in the 17 April 1989 issue of The Scientist, responding to an earlier correspondent who had made "faith" sound like "believing something you know isn't so." Arguing that faith is more like being 1. open to possibilities outside the realm of our present understanding," Joe added that doing science without that kind of faith would be 11 a very dreary job, indeed."

R. Waldo Roth has enjoyed his sabbatical with the AI (artificial intelligence) group at Amoco Production Company in Tulsa but looks forward to getting back to all aspects of teaching computer science (except grading) at Taylor University. He hasn't been entirely out, of an academic setting, though. Wally has done some informal consulting for the U. of Tulsa and has taught half of a graduate course in expert systems. For that he teamed up with former ASA member Jacques LaFrance, whose job with MPSI in Tulsa called him away to Singapore for several months.

Alan E. Van Antwerp has retired after more than 30 years of teaching physics, mathematics, and physical science at Ferris State Univeristy in Big Rapids, Michigan. He hopes to attend ASA meetings he's had to forego in the past, but has a full agenda of activities to pursue. A long-time member of the National Rifle Association as well as ASA, Alan says-he sees - evidence of the truth of Romans 10:2 in both-that is, of some
folks with zeal for a particular position but without much enlightenment. (We hope we stated that correctly. Whenever the NRA comes
up, we've learned to be "as wise as doves and as harmless as Uzis." Oops, I think we got that wrong. Ed.)

Kenneth J. Van Dellen of Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, spotted the names of two other ASA geologists in a single (Jan 1989) issue of Geotimes. In a letter to the editor, Wheaton College Professor Jeffrey K. Greenberg laid out some practical suggestions for coping with the present crisis in earth-science education. A report of the 1988 meeting of TER-QUA (the Institute of Tertiary-Quaternary Studies at the U. of Nebraska) mentioned a paper by coastal sedimentologist William F. Tanner of Florida State University, on sealevel changes over the past 5,000 years; the next one in about a 1,000-year cycle will be a drop in sea level of roughly a meter, due " any day now."

Elver Voth is known to many ASAers as the biology professor at George Fox College in Newberg, Oregon, who made such excellent arrangements for the 1983 ASA Annual Meeting there. We learned recently that Elver has terminal cancer. We offer our prayers in support of our brother in Christ and of those close to him.

Paul M. Wright is supposedly retired, living in Go Ye Village in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, capital of the Cherokee Nation and about 65 miles SE of Tulsa. Paul went to Wheaton College in Illinois before getting his M.S. ('28) and Ph.D. ('30) in physical chemistry at Ohio State. He chaired the Chemistry Dept at Wheaton and somewhere along the line became a licensed electrician. In past issues we've run stories of Paul's travels overseas to wire up mission hospitals ("Juice for Jesus"?-Ed.) He's still active as a volunteer electrician at the Village and also as a volunteer driver, taking residents to the airport or to medical facilities in Tulsa. This spring he taught a class in "mature driving" (AARP's 55 Alive course) for the 12th time. Paul retired from Wheaton in 1970. He'll be 85 in September.

Edwin M. Yamauchi is professor of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. A specialist in the Near East, he has contributed many articles and chapters on historical and archaeological topics. Last year his commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah was finally published in Volume 4 of The Expositor's Bible Commentary, eight years after Ed completed the manuscript. In November 1988 he presided over the Institute for Biblical Studies in Chicago. That gave him a chance to visit a Zoroastrian temple in Hillsdale, Illinois, of special interest since Ed has been writing a book on Persia and the Bible.


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